Ohio "MarketMaker"

Ohio MarketMaker (http://www.ohiomarketmaker.com) is a free Web-based resource for all businesses in the food supply chain and the customers looking to buy locally grown foods. The program is part of a national network of state Web sites that connects farmers with food retailers, grocery stores, processors, caterers, chefs, and other food supply chain contacts. Ohio is the 10th state to join the MarketMaker family.

Ohio MarketMaker is supported through the collaboration of Ohio State University Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Farm Bureau and the Center for Innovative Food Technology.

MarketMaker boasts one of the most extensive collections of searchable food industry-related data in the country -- categorized by buyers, sellers, location and other demographic information. The concept to converge a variety of related databases into one Web site and to summarize the information by using clickable maps originally came from collaboration between University of Illinois Extension and its state partners.

In addition to Ohio, other states supporting MarketMaker include: Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia.


Writer:
Candace Pollock
pollock.58@cfaes.osu.edu
(614) 292-3799

Source:
Julie Fox, OSU South Centers at Piketon
fox.264@osu.edu
(740) 289-2071

 

 

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